"There was no emotion in my blood. There was no anger. There was nothing. It was dead silence in my brain."

"Dead, cold quiet, until he walked up. He looked at me... he walked past me and then I heard in my head. It said, 'Do …"

"I aimed at his back and pulled the trigger five times and all hell broke loose in my mind."

"I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers."

"There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon."

"Though movies (Taxi Driver for John Hinckley Jr., would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan), books (The Catcher in the Rye …"

"Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to releasing to the multitude one prisoner whom they wished. And at that…"

"Now at the feast he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner to them, whomever they requested. And there was one name…"

"And they all cried out at once, saying, “Away with this Man, and release to us Barabbas”— who had been thrown into pr…"

"Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I f…"